TAMMY RAE CARlAND
Born 1965 in Portland, ME. Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 1995 MFA, University of California, Irvine, CA, 1994 BA, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1991 Lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Solo exhibitions
2019 Tammy Rae Carland, Linfield Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
2016 Mini-retrospective, Jessica Silverman South, San Francisco, CA
2014 Live From Somewhere, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2012 I’m Dying Up Here, Clayman Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2010 Funny Face, I Love You, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2008 An Archive of Feelings, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2003 someone else’s yesterday, Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Beds and Letters, Spring Street Gallery, New York, NY The Academic Eye, Lesbian Beds, Duke Museum, Durham, NC On Becoming - Billy and Katie 1964, Franklin Center, Durham, NC
2001 photobacks, Partobject Gallery, Carboro, NC
1999 Queer Youth, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1998 Random Letters to Ransom Girls, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1997 On Becoming - Billy and Katie 1964, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
1996 This Is A Why Her And Why Not Me Story, Emison Art Center, Greencastle, IN
1995 Odd Girl Out, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits), Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibitions
2021 New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2020 Homage to a Circle, Jessica Silverman and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Conversational Spirits II, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2019 Sense of Self, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA To Know Herself, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA Queer California: Untold Stories, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018 In the Eye of the Beholder, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL Kinship, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA Without Repair, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada The Poetry of Silence, Photofairs, San Francisco, CA
2017 Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2016 Four Man Show: Albee/Carland/Hauser/Oleson, Lumpxx, Raleigh, NC Collected, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA [
2015 Alien She, Pacific Northwest College of Art: Feldman Gallery & Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR Tongue-In-Cheek, di Rosa, Napa, CA Occupational Therapy, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Pratfall Tramps, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA [exh. cat.] Alien She, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2014 Alien She, YBCA, San Francisco, CA White is the Warmest Color, Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA Para-Apparatus, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA In Light of It, Contemporary Calgary, Alberta, Canada Alien She, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Alien She, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA Twisted Sisters: Reimagining Urban Portraiture, 2013 Sister City Exchange: San Francisco – Zürich, Museum Bärengasse, Zürich We Had Nothing To Do And We Did It, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA Limited, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2012 Bruce Conner and The Primal Scream of Punk Rock, MCA Denver, Denver, CO You, Me, We, She, Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia, PA Route 3: Selections from the 101 Collection, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011 Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Istanbul, Turkey Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Eleven Lights On The Bay, The Apartment, Vancouver, BC
2009 Hysteria: Past yet present, Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ Sweet and Matchless, PLAySPACE, CCA, San Francisco, CA
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2008 IF LOVE COULD HAVE SAVED YOU, YOU WOULD HAVE LIVED FOREVER, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Another Hero, Bryce’s Barbershop, Olympia, WA 2006 GRAY AREA Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970’s to Now, Sonoma Art Museum, Sonoma, CA
2004 Dreamscapes, University art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA Subject to Oneself, PLAySPACE, CCA, San Francisco, CA Felix Variations, PLAySPACE, CCA, San Francisco, CA The Big Ballyhoo, The Lab, San Francisco, CA GRAY AREA Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970’s to Now, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003 (r)Evolution of Gender, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
2002 Towards Tomorrow, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2000 Ladyfest, Olympia, WA
1999 Post PC, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artist/Audience, The Greenhill Center, Greensboro, NC By Any Means, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
1998 Tuff and Tender, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1996 Gender Fuck, COCA (Center of Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA Alter Image, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Is A Why Her And Why Not Me Story, The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1994 Obsessed: Ruminations in 'Zine Culture, Re: Solution Gallery (LACPS), Los Angeles, CA Bodily Functions, Carolina Union Gallery, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
1993 Superwoman, University of California Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
Selected bibliography
2020 Goldstein, Caroline. “A Transporting New Exhibition Explores the Possibility That All Things Are Imbued With Spiritual Life.” Artnet News. July 31, 2020.
2019 Seikaly, Roula. “Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars.” Hyperallergic. April 19, 2019. Kost, Ryan. “Exhibition creates space for queer women while exploring the spaces they’ve lost.” SF Chronicle. April 18, 2019.
2018 Helfand, Glen. “Tammy Rae Carland.” Aperture. December 2018.
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2016 Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Artful Dodger: Jump into June with Visual Art Happenings.” KQED Arts, June 1, 2016 Burke, Sarah. “Tammy Rae Carland.” East Bay Express, May 25, 2016 Takemoto, Tina. “Queer Art / Queer Failure.” Art Journal 75:1, May 2016: 85-88. Smith, Caroline, “Discover the Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century,” TIME, March 23, 2016
2015 Burke, Sarah, “What Was Withheld: Tammy Rae Carland’s ‘Some of Us Did Not Die,” East Bay Express, October 21, 2015
2014 Akel, Joseph, “Tammy Rae Carland: Critic’s Pick,” Artforum, February Baker, Kenneth, “Tammy Rae Carland Turns Up the Pressure to Always Be On,” San Francisco Chronicle, January Book Reproductions and essays on work by Dana Seitler and Ann Cvetkovich, Feeling Photography, published by Duke Press
2013 Book Reproductions and essay on work, Art and Queer Culture (Themes and Movements Series), edited by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, published by Phaidon Lisa Darms, The Riot Grrrl Collection, Feminist Press. July 1, 2013
2010 Radio interview, Bad at Sports: Episode 270. October 31, 2010 Matt Stromberg, “Tammy Rae Carland,” Art Practical, October 2010 Julie Henson, “Tammy Rae Carland,” Daily Serving, October 9, 2010 Joseph Akel, exhibition review, “Funny Face, I Love You,” Artforum Critic’s Picks, October, 2010 Dena Beard, “Tammy Rae Carland,” Art Practical, September, 2010 Tammy Rae Carland, Collection Rotation, SFMOMA Open Space, September 13, 2010 Kate Steciw, “Tammy Rae Carland,” The Photography Post, September 7, 2010
2008 Glen Helfand, exhibition review, “An Archive Of Feelings,” Artforum, July, 2008 Johnny Ray Huston, “Tammy Rae Carland,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 2008 Jano Cortijo, “Tammy Rae Carland,” Shotgun Review, July 15, 2008 Victoria Gannon, “Tammy Rae Carland,” KQED, July 10, 2008 Jano Cortijo, “Tammy Rae Carland,” Edge, July 8, 2008
2005 Artist pages, Big Magazine, #54
2004 Artist Pages, LTTR, Issue No. 3, July 2004 Carl Nagin, “Home Work,” San Francisco Weekly, February 4, 2004 Johnny Ray Houston, “Better Homes and Galleries,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 14 2004 Glen Helfand, “Age of Ambivalence,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 24, 2004
2003 Ed Halter, “A Few Odd Girls Out Leave Behind the Old New Queer Cinema,” The Village Voice, November 19, 2003 Nancy Millar, “Tammy Rae Carland,” Jane, Jan - Feb 2003 Thurston Moore, Exhibition review, The Wire, January 2003 Television interview, “Self Made Culture,” In the Life, originally aired January 2003
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2002 Holland Cotter, exhibition review, “New York Times,” Dec. 13, 2002 “Out 100 people of the Year,” Out Magazine, December 2002 Barbara McKenzie, “Picture Puzzles,” Independent, Oct. 16, 2002 Blue Greenberg, exhibition review, “Rumpled Sheets,” Herald Sun, Oct. 13, 2002 “How to Make it in the Music Biz,” Curve Magazine, August 2002 Television interview, “Southern Comfort,” Dyke TV, originally aired March 2002 Elin O’hara Slavick, “Deliberately Visible: The Multiple Meanings of Tammy Rae Carland,” The Independent Weekly, January 2, 2002
2001 Jimmy Draper, “Kings and Queens,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 17, 2001 Pamela Grossman, “Mr. Lady Rocks,” Ms. Magazine, Oct - Nov 2001 Dave White, “A Home for Homocore,” The Advocate, June 19, 2001 Kat Parker, “Indies 2001: Triangle Arts Awards,” Independent, June 27, 2001 Todd Fjelsted, “En Garde,” Independent Weekly, September 5, 2001
2000 Whitney Vaughan, “Behind the Curtain,” Independent Weekly, November 15-21, 2000 Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, “Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future,” Farrar, Straus and Giroux press, October 2000 Ann Cvetkovich and Gretchen Phillips, “Revenge of the Girl Bands,” The Nation, July 10, 2000 Jutta Sommerbauer, “Some Grrrls are Ladies,” Nylon, Vienna Austria, August 2000 Evelyn McDonnell, “Girls + Guitars,” Out Magazine, April 2000
1999 Amy Kellner, “That’s Mr. Lady To You,” Time Out New York, October 14-21 1999 Tara Mateik, “Surveying the Scene,” Felix, 1999 Kathleen Hanna, Out Magazine, March 1999
Publications
2015 Carland, Tammy Rae, Some of us did not die, Oakland: LAND & SEA Reese, Rachel (ed.), Pratfall Tramps, Atlanta: Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center [exh. cat.]
Public Collections
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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